6:06 PM,
Mar. 18, 2013

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Press-Citizen Editorial Board
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In response to concerns about a culture of secrecy at the public universities it oversees, the Iowa state Board of Regents has appointed nine people to a new Transparency Task Force. The group is charged with studying best practices on transparency and ensuring those practices are consistent across all of Iowa's public universities.

Board President Craig Lang originally floated the idea of creating the task force in January after he and Gov. Terry Branstad publicly criticized UI in December for its handling of the sexual harassment investigation surrounding a former athletics ...